About
Kill Yourself, also known in plural as Kill Yourselves, is phrase that is commonly used in online discussions in response to incompetent and/or pathetic remarks, statements, or images, with the purpose of telling those who it is directed at that they should just kill themselves for having said or done something so pathetic. The phrase is usually accompanied by the Correction Guy image macro.
Origin
Though the phrase itself predates internet history, One of the earliest recorded examples of the image macro was in July 16th, 2012 on a WeKnowMemes post titled “Best Swag Memes”[4]. The post contain several swag related memes, among them is a picture of a boy proposing his “swag” to a girl which is then followed with the image macro.
Spread
On July 10th, 2005, Urban Dictionary user roccaphella19[1] submitted an entry regarding the phrase, describing it as “Something that is said to someone because they are very stupid.” On July 31st, 2012, the image macro was registered to memegenerator.net[2] and is current ranked 82nd with over 78.000 registered images as of April, 2015. On Archive.moe, typing the keyword “kill yourself” would yield more than 726.000 4Chan posts[3].
On an unregistered date, 9Gag user LAVIDALOCA55 uploaded an image (shown bottom left) which shows a facebook post where the poster mistook the word homo sapien for gay people. As of April, 2015, the post has gathered more than 45.000 points[5]. On September 17th, 2012, Funnyjunk user edmondc posted an image (shown bottom right) which shows several twitter posts where the poster mistook her HIV positive results to being that she is clean from the virus. As of April, 2015, the post has gathered more than 73.000 views and 3.000 points[6].
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Urban Dictionary – Kill yourself
[2]Memegenerator.net – Kill Yourself Guy
[3]Archive.moe – Search – Kill Yourself
[4]WeKnowMemes – Best Swag Memes
[5]9Gag – Please, kill yourself
[6]Funnyjunk – No faith in humanity